Jodi Picoult HANDLE WITH CARE First Edition Signed
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Jodi Picoult HANDLE WITH CARE First Edition Signed
First UK edition, third print hardback of HANDLE WITH CARE, by Jodi Picoult and published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., London, 2009. Signed and inscribed (Pauline Enjoy) by Jodi Picoult on the title page.The book is in very good condition (Clean blue cloth boards with white lettering on the spine which has very slight creasing to the spine edges) with only minor wear to the dust jacket, which is not price clipped (light creasing to the edges, slight folding crease to the flap inside). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.
"When Charlotte and Sean OKeefes daughter, Willow, is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, they are devastated she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain.
As the family struggles to make ends meet to cover Willows medical expenses, Charlotte thinks she has found an answer. If she files a wrongful birth lawsuit against her ob/gyn for not telling her in advance that her child would be born severely disabled, the monetary payouts might ensure a lifetime of care for Willow. But it means that Charlotte has to get up in a court of law and say in public that she would have terminated the pregnancy if shed known about the disability in advance words that her husband cant abide, that Willow will hear, and that Charlotte cannot reconcile. And the ob/gyn shes suing isnt just her physician its her best friend.
Handle With Care explores the knotty tangle of medical ethics and personal morality. When faced with the reality of a fetus who will be disabled, at which point should an OB counsel termination? Should a parent have the right to make that choice? How disabled is TOO disabled? And as a parent, how far would you go to take care of someone you love? Would you alienate the rest of your family? Would you be willing to lie to your friends, to your spouse, to a court? And perhaps most difficult of all would you admit to yourself that you might not actually be lying?".
Its well written, its conscientiously researched and, most important, it presents a character who is a child instead of a disability personified... Handle With Care is a great read, with strong characters, an exciting lawsuit to pull you along and really good use of the medical context. Picoult does a terrific job of evoking OI and its peculiarities -- from the likelihood that parents might be accused of child abuse (because of fractures that dont quite make sense) to the incessant push and pull of wanting a child to experience kindergarten friendships, Disney World and ice skating, while worrying constantly that another fragile bone will break. Washington Post
507 pages.
ISBN: 9780340979013
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